WALTHAM (Monk's) Six 6s.

William H. Monk, 1889

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bove the skies,

1

PARADISE! O Paradise! Who doth not crave for rest? Who would not seek the happy land, Where they that loved are blest; Where loyal hearts and true, Stand ever in the light, All rapture through and through, In God's most holy sight?

2 0 Paradise! O Paradise!

The world is growing old;

Who would not be at rest and free
Where love is never cold;

Where loyal hearts and true,
Stand ever in the light,

All rapture through and through,
In God's most holy sight?

3 O Paradise! O Paradise!

I want to sin no more; I want to be as pure on earth As on thy spotless shore; Where loyal hearts and true, Stand ever in the light, All rapture through and through, In God's most holy sight.

4 Lord Jesus, Light of Paradise,
Shine on me my life long,

In all earth's din cause me to hear
Faint fragments of that song,
Where loyal hearts and true,
Stand ever in the light,

All rapture through and through,
In God's most holy sight.

Frederick W. Faber, 1862. v. 4, alt.

זי

heard a sound of voices

Around the great white throne,

With harpers harping on their harps
To Him who sat thereon;

"Salvation, glory, honor,"

I heard the song arise,

As through the courts of heaven it rolled In wondrous harmonies.

2 From every clime and kindred,
And nations from afar,

As serried ranks returning home
In triumph from a war;

I heard the saints upraising,
The myriad hosts among,

In praise of Him who died, and lives,
Their one glad triumph-song.

3 I saw the holy city,

The New Jerusalem,

Come down from heaven, a bride adorned With jewelled diadem:

The flood of crystal waters

Flowed down the golden street;
And nations brought their honors there,
And laid them at her feet.

4 And there no sun was needed,
Nor moon to shine by night,
God's glory did enlighten all,
The Lamb Himself, the light;
And there His servants serve Him,
And, life's long battle o'er,

Enthroned with Him, their Saviour, King,
They reign for evermore.

Godfrey Thring, 1886